Why BabyJabs? – the need for informed choice
The increasing number of vaccines given to babies may be contributing to the rapid rise in numbers of children developing immune related diseases such as asthma and diabetes.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 However doctors at the Department of Health have dismissed concerns about vaccine “overload”, reassuring parents that babies can cope with “thousands” of vaccines.9
Research has shown that giving a combination of five or more vaccines in a single injection causes more side-effects than by giving the vaccinations in smaller combinations, or separately.10
At BabyJabs we offer mainly single vaccines, with the largest combination being 3-in-1.
Research also suggests that the risk of a child developing asthma can be reduced by over half if vaccination is delayed until 5 months of age.11 Delaying vaccination may also reduce the risk of getting hay fever.12
At BabyJabs we let you decide when to start vaccinating your baby.
Another reason to consider spreading out vaccines is to minimise the amount of aluminium injected into your baby. Most of the vaccines used in the NHS contain aluminium. The overall aluminium load can be decreased by giving aluminium-free vaccines wherever possible, and the aluminium load on any single day can be reduced by giving no more than one aluminium-containing vaccine at any one time. Whenever possible, we use vaccines containing no aluminium; when these are not available, we use vaccines containing the least aluminium.
At BabyJabs we believe that parents have the right to adjust the immunisation schedule to suit the individual needs of their child, taking into account the child’s medical history and the family’s medical history.
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1 Kemp T. Pearce N. Fitzharris P. Crane J. Fergusson D. St George I. Wickens K. Beasley R. Is infant immunization a risk factor for childhood asthma or allergy? Epidemiology 1997; 8(6): 678-80.
2 Farooqi IS. Hopkin JM. Early childhood infection and atopic disorder. Thorax 1998; 53(11): 927-32.
3 Benke G. Abramson M. Raven J. Thien FC. Walters EH. Asthma and vaccination history in a young adult cohort. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Public Health 2004; 28(4): 336-8.
4 Yoneyama H. Suzuki M. Fujii K. Odajima Y. [The effect of DPT and BCG vaccinations on atopic disorders]. [Japanese] Arerugi - Japanese Journal of Allergology 2000; 49(7): 585-92.
5 Hurwitz EL. Morgenstern H. Effects of diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis or tetanus vaccination on allergies and allergy-related respiratory symptoms among children and adolescents in the United States. Journal of Manipulative & Physiological Therapeutics 2000; 23(2): 81-90.
6 DeStefano F et al. Vaccine Safety Datalink Research Group. Childhood vaccinations and risk of asthma. Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal 2002; 21(6): 498-504.
7 Klugman KP. Madhi SA. Huebner RE. Kohberger R. Mbelle N. Pierce N. Vaccine Trialists Group. A trial of a 9-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in children with and those without HIV infection. New England Journal of Medicine 2003; 349(14): 1341-8.
8 Classen JB. Classen DC. Clustering of cases of type 1 diabetes mellitus occurring 2-4 years after vaccination is consistent with clustering after infections and progression to type 1 diabetes mellitus in autoantibody positive individuals. Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology 2003; 16(4): 495-508.
9 Sir Liam Donaldson, Chief Medical Officer. February 2006.
10 Partridge S, Alvey J, Bernstein H, Blatter M, Bottenfield G, Guerrero J, Senders SD, Schuerman L, Cheuvart B, Holmes SJ. Safety of a combination diphtheria, tetanus toxoid, acellular pertussis, hepatitis B, and inactivated polio vaccine coadministered with a 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine and a Haemophilus influenzae type b conjugate vaccine. Vaccine 2007; 25: 1806-1813.
11 McDonald KL et al. Delay in diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus vaccination is associated with a reduced risk of childhood asthma. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 2008; 121: 626-642.
12 Bremner SA et al. Timing of routine immunisations and subsequent hay fever risk. Archives of Disease in Childhood 2005; 90: 567-573.
Research has shown that giving a combination of five or more vaccines in a single injection causes more side-effects than by giving the vaccinations in smaller combinations, or separately.10
At BabyJabs we offer mainly single vaccines, with the largest combination being 3-in-1.
Research also suggests that the risk of a child developing asthma can be reduced by over half if vaccination is delayed until 5 months of age.11 Delaying vaccination may also reduce the risk of getting hay fever.12
At BabyJabs we let you decide when to start vaccinating your baby.
Another reason to consider spreading out vaccines is to minimise the amount of aluminium injected into your baby. Most of the vaccines used in the NHS contain aluminium. The overall aluminium load can be decreased by giving aluminium-free vaccines wherever possible, and the aluminium load on any single day can be reduced by giving no more than one aluminium-containing vaccine at any one time. Whenever possible, we use vaccines containing no aluminium; when these are not available, we use vaccines containing the least aluminium.
At BabyJabs we believe that parents have the right to adjust the immunisation schedule to suit the individual needs of their child, taking into account the child’s medical history and the family’s medical history.
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1 Kemp T. Pearce N. Fitzharris P. Crane J. Fergusson D. St George I. Wickens K. Beasley R. Is infant immunization a risk factor for childhood asthma or allergy? Epidemiology 1997; 8(6): 678-80.
2 Farooqi IS. Hopkin JM. Early childhood infection and atopic disorder. Thorax 1998; 53(11): 927-32.
3 Benke G. Abramson M. Raven J. Thien FC. Walters EH. Asthma and vaccination history in a young adult cohort. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Public Health 2004; 28(4): 336-8.
4 Yoneyama H. Suzuki M. Fujii K. Odajima Y. [The effect of DPT and BCG vaccinations on atopic disorders]. [Japanese] Arerugi - Japanese Journal of Allergology 2000; 49(7): 585-92.
5 Hurwitz EL. Morgenstern H. Effects of diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis or tetanus vaccination on allergies and allergy-related respiratory symptoms among children and adolescents in the United States. Journal of Manipulative & Physiological Therapeutics 2000; 23(2): 81-90.
6 DeStefano F et al. Vaccine Safety Datalink Research Group. Childhood vaccinations and risk of asthma. Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal 2002; 21(6): 498-504.
7 Klugman KP. Madhi SA. Huebner RE. Kohberger R. Mbelle N. Pierce N. Vaccine Trialists Group. A trial of a 9-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in children with and those without HIV infection. New England Journal of Medicine 2003; 349(14): 1341-8.
8 Classen JB. Classen DC. Clustering of cases of type 1 diabetes mellitus occurring 2-4 years after vaccination is consistent with clustering after infections and progression to type 1 diabetes mellitus in autoantibody positive individuals. Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology 2003; 16(4): 495-508.
9 Sir Liam Donaldson, Chief Medical Officer. February 2006.
10 Partridge S, Alvey J, Bernstein H, Blatter M, Bottenfield G, Guerrero J, Senders SD, Schuerman L, Cheuvart B, Holmes SJ. Safety of a combination diphtheria, tetanus toxoid, acellular pertussis, hepatitis B, and inactivated polio vaccine coadministered with a 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine and a Haemophilus influenzae type b conjugate vaccine. Vaccine 2007; 25: 1806-1813.
11 McDonald KL et al. Delay in diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus vaccination is associated with a reduced risk of childhood asthma. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 2008; 121: 626-642.
12 Bremner SA et al. Timing of routine immunisations and subsequent hay fever risk. Archives of Disease in Childhood 2005; 90: 567-573.
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